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*The purpose of a system is what it does*Please share with anyone that needs this, or might know those that do #CapeTown #SouthAfrica...

*The purpose of a system is what it does*

Please share with anyone that needs this, or might know those that do #CapeTown #SouthAfrica #Observatory #Woodstock #Mowbray

Heh, guess when I got my #solar panels installed? One advantage of living in a very sunny place, recouping the investment is happening very...

Heh, guess when I got my #solar panels installed?

One advantage of living in a very sunny place, recouping the investment is happening very quickly! #SouthAfrica

(R1000 is about $50)

Just a bump on this - position is closing soon!https://fosstodon.org/@Gord1i/114388283511858690

Just a bump on this - position is closing soon!

https://fosstodon.org/@Gord1i/114388283511858690

Come work with me in the City of #CapeTown #DataScience branch! We do cool things in the name of science and our residents:...

Come work with me in the City of #CapeTown #DataScience branch! We do cool things in the name of science and our residents: http://www.capetown.gov.za/careers

Feel free to @ me with any questions. Would appreciate boosts for reach.

#CivicTech #CapeTown #SouthAfrica #Data #Jobs

A somewhat jaded flyer, I couldn't resist taking this photo of Table Mountain, looking particularly mooi.Looks like we're getting...

A somewhat jaded flyer, I couldn't resist taking this photo of Table Mountain, looking particularly mooi.

Looks like we're getting lucky with our Easter weather!

#CapeTown #SouthAfrica

Are you a #DataEngineer interested in getting into #CivicTech, but want to still keep a toe-hold in acdaemia?Our frequent collaborators at...

Are you a #DataEngineer interested in getting into #CivicTech, but want to still keep a toe-hold in acdaemia?

Our frequent collaborators at #JPAL Africa have a post for a data engineer that will embedded in the City of #CapeTown's Data Science team: https://www.povertyactionlab.org/careers/data-scientist-j-pal-africa-job-105296

Feel free to reach out with any questions

#jobs #southafrica

(please boost for reach)

I've really enjoyed this miniseries on Houdini in case anyone is looking for something to listen...

I've really enjoyed this miniseries on Houdini in case anyone is looking for something to listen to:

https://econtwitter.net/@TimHarford/114238312210225412

I really enjoyed this interview with Lina Khan, who was chair of the FTC in the States until recently. Really refreshing to hear a...

I really enjoyed this interview with Lina Khan, who was chair of the FTC in the States until recently. Really refreshing to hear a competent, serious young person in #PublicService, in contrast to the chaos often being wrought by incompetent and unserious "elders"

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5wRWWSfOuFhm0MyDvxKYki?si=EJWU5H8KQ7SWdJ_MzZo45Q

Need to do some load testing of an internal HTTP service, mostly emulating interactive workloads. Primarily interested in measuring latency...

Need to do some load testing of an internal HTTP service, mostly emulating interactive workloads. Primarily interested in measuring latency and throughput. Any recommendations?

#DevOps #API #loadtesting

Really great to start seeing alerts from my colleagues in Transport starting to come through! They're starting with planned road...

Really great to start seeing alerts from my colleagues in Transport starting to come through! They're starting with planned road works

#CivicTech #capetown

https://mastodon.africa/@coct_service_alerts/114081897276521084

Via @fixthenews.com - in a shocking development, developing countries are switching to the cheapest form of energy (renewables) very...

Via @fixthenews.com - in a shocking development, developing countries are switching to the cheapest form of energy (renewables) very quickly:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-02-24/china-is-rewiring-the-global-south-with-clean-power

If we keep installing at this rate, we would hit net zero in 2040 or so

A small win, but a win non-the-less - #CapeTown Metrorail times showing up on Google Maps:...

A small win, but a win non-the-less - #CapeTown Metrorail times showing up on Google Maps: https://www.reddit.com/r/capetown/comments/1it3f4p/train_schedules_now_on_google_maps/?rdt=48560

Would appreciate any leads on the GTFS endpoint, if anyone knows it

#PublicTransport #Trains #CivicTech

Was helping a colleague with some debugging yesterday, and realised that a lot of behaviours - working methodically through the code,...

Was helping a colleague with some debugging yesterday, and realised that a lot of behaviours - working methodically through the code, checking basic assumptions, "working the problem" are soothing behaviours.

Which makes sense, as you're convincing yourself that everything is going to be OK, and you're going to figure it out.

I also suspect engineers have been doing this for thousands of years, way before we got enamoured with this whole scientific method thing.

#software #dev #engineering

Had such a nice meal at Maria's in Gardens. An old haunt from when I lived round the corner, the lamb is always worth coming back for!...

Had such a nice meal at Maria's in Gardens. An old haunt from when I lived round the corner, the lamb is always worth coming back for! #capetown #food

Go @czue!https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/113924019613349051

Go @czue!

https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/113924019613349051

So we replaced the underlying VM in place with Ubuntu 24 (*NB* one of the LTS releases, see I'm learning things). Went pretty smoothly...

So we replaced the underlying VM in place with Ubuntu 24 (*NB* one of the LTS releases, see I'm learning things). Went pretty smoothly with just some fiddling with the network routes

Our bi-annual #GitLab upgrade had a bit more excitement than the last iteration. As always, the GL docs are great, and using the omnibus...

Our bi-annual #GitLab upgrade had a bit more excitement than the last iteration. As always, the GL docs are great, and using the omnibus docker installation, the upgrade is extraordinary straightforward. There is now a fancy upgrade tool, with the version increments: https://gitlab-com.gitlab.io/support/toolbox/upgrade-path/?current=15.5.6&distro=docker

Alas, the docker version underneath was too old to go past v16. And we couldn't upgrade docker because, um, the OS (atomic host) has been deprecated for quite some time. I'm very good at computers

#SysAdmin

And now in true colour!

And now in true colour!

Always nice to draw a pretty picture of #capetown!Working with our colleagues in our Geomatics dept to serve up monthly composite images...

Always nice to draw a pretty picture of #capetown!

Working with our colleagues in our Geomatics dept to serve up monthly composite images based upon satellite imagery, similar to our annual, aerial imagery (nice demo of that here: https://grant.dev.openstreetmap.org/coct-historical-aerial/).

#OpenData #CivicTech #GIS

Very cool map built by one of my colleagues on top of the API behind @coct_service_alerts - https://ttlx.me/coct/service-alerts/#civictech...

Very cool map built by one of my colleagues on top of the API behind @coct_service_alerts - https://ttlx.me/coct/service-alerts/

#civictech #CapeTown #SouthAfrica #ServiceDelivery